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Discernment of spirits is a term used in Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, and Charismatic Christian theology to judge the influence of various spiritual agents on a person's morality. These agents are: from within the human soul itself, known as concupiscence (considered evil) Divine Grace (considered good) Angels (considered good) Devils ...
Rudolf Steiner developed exercises aimed at cultivating new cognitive faculties he believed would be appropriate to contemporary individual and cultural development. . According to Steiner's view of history, in earlier periods people were capable of direct spiritual perceptions, or clairvoyance, but not yet of rational thought; more recently, rationality has been developed at the cost of ...
Christian spiritual discernment is distinct from secular types of discernment because every decision is to be made in accordance with God's will. [8]: 12 The fundamental definition of Christian discernment is a decision-making process in which an individual makes a discovery that can lead to future action. [10]
Discernment is a prayerful "pondering" or "mulling over" the choices a person wishes to consider. In discernment, the person's focus should be on a quiet attentiveness to God and sensing rather than thinking. The goal is to understand the choices in one's heart, to see them, as it were, as God might see them.
The spiritual guide aims to discern and understand what the Holy Spirit, through the situations of life, spiritual insights in the fruit of prayer, reading and meditation on the Bible, tells the person accompanied. The spiritual father or spiritual director may provide advice, give indications of life and prayer, resolving doubts in matters of ...
Francis spoke of the "decadent scholasticism" of his time [102] and he calls for openness to "differing currents of thought in philosophy, theology, and pastoral practice", saying that being "in dialogue with other sciences and human experiences is most important for our discernment on how best to bring the Gospel message to different cultural ...
The understanding and practice of this side of spiritual philosophy is influenced through one’s ethical principles, thoughts and emotions. [22] Hence, non-religious spirituality is more open-ended than religious spiritual philosophy, as one’s spirituality not being based primarily on religious teachings and texts. [ 23 ]
Spiritual growth and nirvikalpa samadhi, the entire universe is you, you are the self of all 13 384–406 Continuous attention to one's true nature 14 407–425 Atam-vichar: self-inquiry 15 426–445 Signs of a realized seer: jivanmukta 16 446–471 The saint without plurality 17 472–520 The disciple of knowledge and the experience of self-hood